Word: skies
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DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). A searching study of aviation yesterday, today and in the sky-cluttered future, topped by a ride in the cockpit of a Boeing 727 jetliner...
...show a profit, however, even these will not be able to soak up more than a handful of low-income people. Without eminent domain and the resources of a government, the obstacles to building a new city are enormous. To acquire land for Columbia without driving prices to the sky, for example, developers had to use all kinds of cloak-and-dagger techniques in making 169 separate purchases...
Long Haunt. A hyperactive Congress is of course no guarantee against the sort of violence that Brooke was talking about. Watts blew sky-high in the midst of the greatest legislative activity on civil rights in a century. City after city has become the scene of rioting after-not before-the enactment of a whole spate of Great Society programs. To a degree, the programs themselves are to blame: they have awakened the Negro to what is available in America's opulent society and whetted his appetite for more. And, as Charles Silberman noted in his Crisis in Black...
...sky above Moscow, flights of Soviet jets in tight formation spelled out the word Lenin and the arabic numeral 50 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. As Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin looked on from an airport on the city's outskirts, the Soviet military last week put on a rare demonstration of new military aircraft; the last such display was six years ago. To Western observers, the Moscow show also spelled out something else: a new direction in Soviet airpower...
...learned in the past several years about X-ray sources in space. It will also yield some of the secrets of spectacular globular star clusters like Omega Centauri, 15,000 light-years from earth. The brightest clusters, including those nearest the earth, can be found only in the southern sky. Since the clusters are believed to contain some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way, they may provide invaluable knowledge regarding the age of the universe...